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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects?

Ask HN: Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects? 3 by zizee | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in building some open source projects/libraries, with long term monetization being the addition of paid/premium additional features. I have a soft spot for (and expertise in) Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but I know it has seen a decline in popularity ove the years. Are start-ups still using Ruby/Rails to get new apps stood up? If not, which web frameworks are seeing growth, or big mind share for new builds of SaaS? Edit: my primary interest is in building libraries for backend processes, than heavy frontend offerings.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?

Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail? 8 by smj-edison | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hi! With the recent buzz around MCP, it made me think about what I've read about other unifying protocol attempts in the past. Why did these 2000s era interoperability protocols fail, and what does MCP do different? Was it a matter of security issues in a newly networked world? A matter of bad design? A matter of being too calcified? I would love to hear from those who were around that time.

New ask Hacker News story: A FOSS project to create an Artificial Mind

A FOSS project to create an Artificial Mind 3 by apiemotion | 1 comments on Hacker News. Self-Evolving AI System with Full Observability Built an autonomous AI platform that can discover and integrate new capabilities at runtime. Key technical points: Event-driven core: NATS message bus handles tool discovery, registration, and execution. System observes its own operations and adapts. Self-improvement loop: AI agents can create and deploy new tools/agents to extend system capabilities—"AI building AI" without human intervention. Full transparency: Real-time visibility into decision trees, reasoning chains, and inter-agent communication (rare in production AI systems). Production-ready stack: Docker isolation, Redis for state, K8s orchestration, REST APIs. News feeds trigger autonomous goal generation. The interesting bit: Unlike typical agent frameworks that are statically configured, this learns new domains by spinning up specialized sub-agents and tools dynamically. Zero...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?

Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases? 2 by mpetyak | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve seen a few talks and blog posts about GraphRAG and graph databases (mostly from companies building graph databases), and I’m curious to hear about your experiences with them in the context of agentic applications. I get how they could model relationships between entities more naturally and help agents pull relevant context faster, but does it actually make a big difference in your project? I’m considering trying it out, but I’m sceptical that the benefits are that much bigger than just sticking with good-old Postgres. Where have you found graph databases really made a difference? And were there cases where you wouldn’t use them again?

New ask Hacker News story: Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle

Federal Shutdown Means More Grants Won't Be Reviewed This Cycle 2 by SubiculumCode | 0 comments on Hacker News. Federal Shutdown Means More NIH Grants Won't Be Reviewed this cycle, more lost time, more research coming to a halt, more scientists leaving to other nations. This is what a failing superpower looks like.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How is hiring done in other industries?

Ask HN: How is hiring done in other industries? 2 by freetonik | 1 comments on Hacker News. If you have experience working in industries unrelated to software engineering, could you describe how does the hiring process look like for regular and senior professionals? I'm curious to know if endless rounds of interviews, take-home assignments, multi-month timelines, the need to prove you know the absolute basics after working in the field for decades, and extremely high chances of rejection are the norm anywhere else.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why does every website ask me to accept cookies?

Ask HN: Why does every website ask me to accept cookies? 5 by chistev | 4 comments on Hacker News. It feels like every site (few exceptions) now throws up a big banner or modal demanding you “accept cookies”. The whole process impedes usage of the site.

New ask Hacker News story: Unions?

Unions? 2 by Glibly | 2 comments on Hacker News. Why are there so many young people who hate on unions also bewildered as to why they can't find well paying jobs and buy houses like their parents did?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is building solo with AI?

Ask HN: Who is building solo with AI? 2 by kordlessagain | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Protests raging in Morocco about education and health

Protests raging in Morocco about education and health 3 by kirito1337 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Protests have been raging in Morocco in the past 2 days, many people have died, the protest has took over many places north of Morocco towards Tiznit. One report said that police have been trying to split the protests, and while doing so, arrest anyone nearby, including women and children. one guy got his 2 legs cut yesterday and died of blood deprivation holy crap

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone else notice there are no crypto/blockchain posts on HN?

Ask HN: Anyone else notice there are no crypto/blockchain posts on HN? 4 by hnaccountme | 1 comments on Hacker News.